DPI- Factsheets

DPI Fact Sheets Questions

For each of the Marine Life species fact sheets you have to:

1.      Write the name of the species in your book

2.     Write down the scientific name of the animal

3.     Write down it’s exploitation status

4.     What is the animal’s main habitat? Where does it live?

5.     What is the minimum size of the animal you are allowed to keep?

6.     How many are you allowed to keep? What is the “bag limit”?

7.     At what age do they reach sexual maturity?

8.     One extra fact.

Check each species off in the table below as you complete the questions

Tailor

Sea Mullet

Sand Whiting

Mulloway

Dusky Flathead

Blue Swimmer Crab

Bream

Mahi Mahi

Giant Mud Crab

Seagrasses Fact Sheet Questions

1.      Where do Seagrasses mainly occur?

2.     Are seagrasses the same as seaweed?

3.     What are two differences between Seagrasses & Seaweed?

4.     Give three reasons why Seagrasses are important?

5.     What percentage of NSW’s Seagrass is in Wallis Lake?

6.     What are four processes that can destroy Seagrass?

Fish Habitat Basics Fact Sheet Questions

1.      What are the 5 stages in a Fish’s life cycle?

2.     According to the 1994 NSW Fisheries Management Act, what is Habitat defined as?

3.     What are the two ways Fish found in NSW spawn?

4.     What are 6 habitat features of Estuaries?

5.     How far offshore does the female Mud Crab migrate to spawn after her eggs are fertilised?

6.     Why is it important that we know at what age a fish reaches sexual maturity when size limits are created?